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Catholic pressure may sway Mugabe to reform - analysts
Tue Apr 10, 2007 9:43am ET


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HARARE (Reuters) - The Catholic Church's sharp criticism of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe could have a greater influence in persuading him to discuss political reform than a mass of attacks from elsewhere, political analysts said.

Zimbabwe's Catholic bishops accused Mugabe and his officials of running a bad and corrupt government and abusing the political rights of Zimbabweans in a pastoral letter posted in churches throughout the southern African nation during Easter.

Neither Mugabe, a practicing Catholic, nor his officials have publicly responded to the warning from Zimbabwe's Catholic Bishops' Conference that radical reforms were needed to avert a mass uprising in the economically-strapped country.

"The pastoral letter presents a new challenge to Mugabe and will probably help persuade him that he needs to be talking about electoral and constitutional reforms, too, as pressure is mounting on him," said Eldred Masunungure, a political science professor at the University of Zimbabwe in Harare.

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[ddeubel]

That's what's so beautiful about the Catholic religion. You can kill, reek mayhem, brutalize and chomp on human flesh and suffering and still get a "get out of hell free" card. No religion can ever trump that ..........

DD

PS. Don't mean to trivialize the suffering there. Rather would like to see more than just the church do something about the man. This is where the British navy should be, if anywhere.....redeploy from Basra for sure.

[Kuros]

Reform? Does reform mean Mugabe will refrain from dumping children in the bush to be eaten by hyenas? Does reform mean an end to the rape of women married to or daughters of supporters of the opposition?

[W.T.Carl]

And winged monkeys will fly out of his rectum.